Senior Manager, Early Careers

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About the Role:

We are looking for an on-site Senior Manager, Early Careers to join Crusoe’s Recruiting organization. As we scale, attracting exceptional early-career talent will be critical to shaping our culture, accelerating innovation, and building our next generation of technical and business leaders.

We are looking for a Senior Manager, University Recruiting to build and lead our early-career recruiting strategy. This role combines hands-on recruiting leadership with program ownership, requiring someone who can design scalable programs, partner closely with leadership, and build strong university relationships to attract top emerging talent. You will collaborate closely with hiring managers and cross-functional partners, and build programs that identify, hire, and convert top early-career talent into long-term contributors at the company. This role requires someone who is strategic, operationally strong, and comfortable rolling up their sleeves in a fast-moving startup environment.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Own and scale the company’s university recruiting strategy end-to-end, including sourcing strategy, interview processes, intern experience, offer management, and full-time conversion.

• Identify and prioritize target universities, programs, and student organizations aligned with business hiring needs.

• Develop scalable recruiting programs that support hiring across engineering, product, and business teams.

• Own and scale the company’s university recruiting strategy end-to-end, including sourcing strategy, interview processes, intern experience, offer management, and full-time conversion.

• Identify and prioritize target universities, programs, and student organizations aligned with business hiring needs.

• Develop scalable recruiting programs that support hiring across engineering, product, and business teams

• Design and manage a high-impact internship program that provides meaningful work and strong intern-to-full-time conversion.

• Build structured intern experiences including onboarding, mentorship, performance evaluation, and programming.

• Continuously improve the early-career hiring funnel to increase conversion and hiring quality.

• Partner with hiring managers, People Partners, and business leaders to align early-career hiring plans with workforce planning and headcount priorities.

• Build and maintain relationships with career centers, faculty, student organizations, and university partners.

• Represent the company at university events, conferences, and recruiting initiatives to strengthen our employer brand.

• Manage program budgets, forecasting, and vendor relationships for campus recruiting initiatives.

• Track and analyze recruiting metrics including pipeline health, intern conversion, offer acceptance, and diversity outcomes.

• Use data and insights to continuously improve recruiting programs and processes.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• 7+ years of recruiting experience, including ownership of full-cycle recruiting and early-career or university recruiting programs.

• Experience building or scaling campus recruiting programs in fast-growing organizations.

• Proven ability to lead or mentor recruiters and influence hiring outcomes across multiple teams.

• Strong expertise in sourcing strategies, candidate assessment, offer negotiation, and closing in competitive talent markets.

• Experience using data and recruiting metrics to evaluate program performance and guide decision-making.

• Familiarity with university recruiting platforms, ATS systems, and campus recruiting tools.

• Ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus Points

• Experience building or scaling university recruiting programs at a startup or high-growth tech company.

• Demonstrated success building strong university partnerships.

• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs with strong operational rigor.

• Proven experience hiring diverse early-career talent across technical and business roles.

Benefits:

• Industry competitive pay

• Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company

• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents

• Employer contributions to HSA accounts

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Teladoc

• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary

• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule

• Cell phone reimbursement

• Tuition reimbursement

• Subscription to the Calm app

• MetLife Legal

• Company paid commuter benefit; $300/month

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $159,000 - $195,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.